Bidding fares well
A record $5,485.88 was raised in the silent auction,
which benefits ACES' educational endeavors.
Christine Steele (Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, Sherman Oaks, Calif.), left, and Jill Reed (Torrance, Calif., Daily Breeze) go down to the wire in the bidding for a ride on a Goodyear blimp. Reed won the trip with an offer of $610, the highest bid of any in this year's auction. (Photo by Deirdre Edgar)
ABOVE: Tim Lynch (Los Angeles Times), left, caught up with Peter Zicari (Cleveland Plain Dealer) after winning one of Zicari's cartoons with a $300 bid.
LEFT: The cartoon that Lynch won shows a naked emperor and offers a reminder that ''copy editors see things others don't.'' It was autographed by panelists from the Editing the Future session. Several Zicari cartoons raised hundreds of dollars in the auction.
Mary Vezilich (Defense Language Institute), left, and Kim Delafuente (Orange County Register)
Merrill Perlman (New York Times), left, and Gerri Berendzen (Quincy, Ill., Herald-Whig) whoop it up after the bidding clock expires. Perlman won a Zicari cartoon, and Berendzen took home a cartoon by Steve Breen of the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Melissa Bauman (Orange County Register) bids on a Zicari cartoon.
A replica of an old-time New York Times delivery truck catches the eye of Marcus A. Williams III (Indianapolis Star).
Joe Hudson (Denver Post), left, and Dick Moss (Rochester, N.Y., Democrat and Chronicle) browse through the books.
A John Wooden-autographed UCLA basketball was donated to the auction.
Auction facts
-- A record $5,485.88 was raised (the previous record was about $4,500 last year)
-- The priciest item was a $610 ride in a Goodyear blimp, won by Jill Reed of the Daily Breeze in Torrance, Calif.
-- Three other items also fetched more than $200. Tim Lynch (Los Angeles Times) paid $300 for a Peter Zicari (Cleveland Plain Dealer) drawing signed by Editing the Future panelists. Barbara Tarshes (Riverside, Calif., Press-Enterprise) paid $245 for the "First Copy Editor" cartoon by Mike Luckovich (Atlanta Journal-Consititution). And Gerri Berendzen (Quincy, Ill., Herald-Whig) paid $201 for a cartoon by Steve Breen (San Diego Union-Tribune).
-- In the impromptu bidding at the banquet, the biggest spender was Craig Lancaster (San Jose Mercury News), who bought John McIntyre's bow tie for $125.
Yvonne Ngai (St. Petersburg Times) bids on a Pete Carroll-autographed football commemorating the University of Southern California's national championship. Ngai is a USC graduate.
A photo of Marilyn Monroe in court on the day she divorced Joe DiMaggio was one of several historic photos of celebrities the Los Angeles Times donated from its archives.
Bargain hunters, from left, Bill Chronister (Columbus Dispatch), Kay Jarvis (Denver Post) and Gil Aegerter (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Craig Lancaster (San Jose Mercury News) exults after winning ACES President John McIntyre's bow tie with a $125 bid during the impromptu auction at the banquet. Other items sold in the live bidding included McIntyre's handkerchief and the "Pimp My Headline" T-shirts worn by Tom Lynch and Brian Throckmorton for their Extreme Headline Makeover session. (Photo by Deirdre Edgar)
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